22/04/2010. KING OF WESSEX, 5-10 James Street West, BATH, Bath & North East Somerset, England (WETHERSPOONS)

6

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Bottle. Copper-bronze in colour with a small head. It is sweet in character, both nose and taste are sugary.

5.6

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 5 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 5.5

500ml bottle at 3.7%. Pours pale orange with a large head. Aroma is grainy, a little dusty and metallic. Taste starts with some watery orange and has a grainy, medium bitter finish. A bit thin but it’s low abv.

5.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 5 | Flavor - 6 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

Cask (handpump) @ JDW - The Manchester & County, 49 Piccadilly, Manchester, Greater Manchester, England M1 2AP.Clear medium orange color with a average, frothy, good lacing, mostly diminishing, white head. Aroma is moderate malty, grain, hay, toasted, light to moderate hoppy, citrus, grass. Flavor is moderate sweet and bitter with a average to long duration. Body is medium, texture is oily, carbonation is flat to soft. [20100425]

7

Appearance - 8 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

(Cask at Edgar Wallace, Strand, London, 3 Aug 2010) Pale amber colour with foamy, off-white head. Fruity nose with orange, mandarin and floral hops. Fruity taste with notes of orange, mandarin, dried apricots and fresh, floral hops in the finish. Light body, balanced sweetness, generous floral bitterness. Refreshing, nice and highly drinkable.

6.5

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6

12th April 2010. Clear gold beer. Very light carbonation. Semi dry palate. Not too much malt, just enough to provide a base for some nice hops that cut through. Orange and grapefruit and a dash of spcice. Not a hop bomb but the hops cut through well here.

6.1

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 4 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

[Cask at Monks Retreat, Reading] Deep gold, thick white head. Faintly sulphurous aroma made me dread it, but fortunately on tasting it was rather intriguing. Sweet vanilla and butterscotch are mixed with hints of sulphur, before a growing and drawn-out crisp bitterness takes over, leaving a dry finish. Even through this you still get enticing sweet notes. You can see how it’s been given the Burton name. It’s an interesting beer, although possibly not one I’d choose too often.

6.8

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 7 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 7

Cask-conditioned at George’s Meeting House (JDW), Exeter 19/04/10. Deep gold in colour with a decent white head. Aroma of sweet cereals and grassy hops. Flavours of sweetish malts, decent, almost spicy hops and a long, bitter finish. Enjoyable.

7.1

Appearance - 10 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 8 | Overall - 6.5

Cask, handpump at The Penny Black, JDW, Bicester, Oxon, 18-04-10 Pours gold in colour. This is really quite citric, bit pithy in mouth even. Quite refreshing stuff, with a nicely weighted sweetness, some citrus on tip of tongue, touch dry. Nice, btw Tonto wasn’t a fan of this, when I told her I really liked it, she uttered some American Indian phrase that I took to mean unbelieveable. A6 A5 F7 P4 Ov13 3.5

6.4

Appearance - 6 | Aroma - 6 | Flavor - 7 | Texture - 6 | Overall - 6.5

Cask handpull at County Hotel, JDW, Ashford. Gold, lasting thin white head. OK, nothing wrong with it. OK golden ale. Some ok hop sting on the end. Just a little thin on the body but otherwise perfectly ok. Some yeast on aroma, but want to get back to the Daleside Spring as the condition was so good.